(TITC)- The Prime Minister on 22nd January 2013 has approved the master plan on Viet Nam tourism development to 2020, vision 2030.

The overall objectives to 2020 are to develop tourism to be a key economic industry with high professionalism, modern and fairly synchronously-developed tourist infrastructure; high quality, competitive and diversified tourist products imprinted with unique traditional cultural characteristics.

The main directions are about developing tourism markets; developing both domestic and international tourism, inbound and outbound tourism; focusing on tourists whose purpose of trip is travel and leisure with long stay and high expenditure; developing tourism products; organizing tourism zones; boosting investment for tourism development; tourism business management.

Regarding solutions, the plan focuses on mechanisms, policies; mobilization of tourism investment; promotion and advertisement; organization and management of the plan; application of science and technology; international cooperation; resources and tourism environment protection and solutions to cope with impact of climate change....